The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-25

with God aud his hymn beginning: "What
various hindrances we meet, and his hymn
beginning; "God moves In a mysterious
way.n Yet so was be overcome OF NOLAN
choly, or black bile, that it was only through
the mistake OF the cab driver, who took him
TO wrong place, instead Of the river bank,
that he did not commit suicide
Spiritual condition 50 nightly affected by
the physical stated What 3 great oppor-
tunity this gives the Christian physician, for
he can feel at the same time both the pulse
Of the body and the pulse Of the soul, and he
can administer TO both at once, and IL medi-
cine Is needed he can give that, and II spirit
ual counsel Is needed he con give that-an
earthly and divine prescription at the same
time-and call not only the apothecary of
earth, but the pharmacy of heaven. All,
that Is the kind Of doctor want at my bed
side when ! get sick, one that cannot only
pour out the rignt number Of drops, but
one who can also pray. That is the kind of
doctor have had in my house when
sickness or death came. do not want any
Of your PREDICATE or atheistic doctors around
my loved ones when the balances Of life are
trembling. A doctor who has gone through
the medical college, and in dissecting room
has trayersed the wonders Of the human
mechanism, and found no God In any Of the
labyrinths, is fool, and cannot doctor me or
mine. But, oh, the Christian doctorsi What
a comfort they have been in many of our
households. And they ought to have warm
place in our prayers, as well as praise on our
tongues Dear old DIR. Shdllmanl My fathers
doctor, my mothers doctor, in the village
home. He carried all the condolences of
all the families fourteen miles around.
Va all falk hfVrN.
ter the house. His face pronounced beati-
tude before he said word He welcomed
all of us children into life, and he closed the
old peoples eyes when they entered the last
slumber. i think know what Christ said
to him when the old doctor got through his
work. think he was greeted with the
words: "Come In, doctor. was sick and
We visited me-" bless God that the number
Of Christian physicians Is multiplying, and
some of the students of the medical colleges
are here today. And / hall you, and bless
you, and ordain you to the ten
der, beautiful, heaven descended work
of a Christian physician, and when
you take your diploma from the
Long Island Medical college to look after
the perishable body, be sure also to get di-
ploma from the skies to look after the imper-
ishable soul Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers of the Gospel in persuad-
ing GOOD people that it is not because God is
against them that they sometimes feel de
pressed, but because of their diseased body. /
suppose David, the psalmist, was no more
pious when he called on everything human
and angelic, animate and inaninate, and
from snowflake to hurricane, to praise God,
than when he said: "Out of the depths of
hell have / cried unto thee, o Lord; !" or
that jeremiah was any better when he
wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his
Lamentations" or that Job was any better
when he said, 81 know that my Redeemer
| liveth," than when, covered all over with the
pustules of elephantiasis, he sat in the ashes
scratching the scabs off with broken piece
of pottery, or that Alexander Cruden, the
concordist, was any better man when he
compiled the book that has helped 10000
students of the Bible than when under the
power of physical disorder, he was hand
cuffed and strait waistcoated in Bethnal
! Green Insane asylum.
| "OhIn SAYS some Christian man, mo one
ought to allow physical disorder to depress
| his soul He ought TO live so near to God as
| to be always in the sunshine" Yes, that is
| good advice; but I warrant that you, the
man who gives the advice, have sound
liver. Thank God every day for healthful
hepatic condition, for, just as certainly as
| you lose it, you viii sometimes, like David,
and like jeremiah, and like Cowper, and like
| Alexander Cruden, and like 10000 other in
! valids, be playing dead march on the same
/ organ with which now you play toccata.
1 My object at this point is not only to
emolliate the criticisms of the well
! against those in poor health, but to
show Christian people who are atrabila-
rious what is the matter with them. Do not
| charge against the heart the crimes Of an
/ other portion of your organism. Do not con-
! clude that because the path of heaven is not
I arbored with as fine o foliage, or the banks
! beautifully showed under with exquisite
( chrysanthemums as once, that therefore you
are on the wrong road. The road viii bring
you out at tho same gate whether you walk
! with the stride of an athlete or come up on
/ clutches Thousands of Christians morbid
| about their experiences and morbid about
their business, and morbid about the present
and morbid about the future, need tie ser.
mon am now preaching.
| Another practical use of this subject is fol-
the young. The theory is abroad that they
must first sow their wild oats, and afterward
! Michigan wheat. Let me break the delusion
Wild oats are generally sown in the liver
and they can never be pulled up. They Sc
preoccupy that organ that there Is no room
for the implantation of a righteous crop
! You see aged men about us at so erect
! agile, splendid, grand old men. How mucl
j wild oats did they sow between Is years anC
30l None, absolutely none. God does moi
very often honor with old age those who
have in early life sacrificed swine on the
altar of the bodily temple. Remember, G
young man, that while in after life and aftel
years of dissipation you may perhaps have
| your heart changed, religion does MOI
change the liver. Trembling and stag
gering along these streets today arr
men, all bent and decayed and
prematurely old for the reason that they arr
paying for liens they put upon their physical
estate before they were 80. By early dissipa
ton they put on their body first mortgage
and second mortgage, and third mort
gage to the devil, and these mortgages are
now being foreclosed, and all that remains
Of their earthly estate the undertaken will
soon put out of sight Many years ago
in fulfllment of my text, dart STRUCK
through their liver, and it is there yet. Goo
forgives, but outraged physical law never
never, never. That has Sinai, but no Cal
vary. Solomon in my text knew what be
! was talking about He had in early life
been profigate, and he rises up on bis
throne of worldly splendor to shrek out 9
| warning to all the centuries. David, bad in
early life, but good in later life, cries Out
with an agony of earnestness: Remember
not the sins of my youth"
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name Of
! squatter sovereignty to those who went out
II i 4 u
them by right of preoccupation Let q
flock of sins settle on your heart before you
/ get to rs years Of age, and they will in all
probability keep possession of it by an in
fernal squatter sovereignty. 81 prom.
Use to pay at the bank $500 six months
from date" says the promissory note. "a
promise to pay my life thirty years from
date at the bank of the grave" says every
infraction Of the laws of your physical
being
WHAT VIII mans body never com.
| pletely recover from early dissipation in this
world9 Never. How about the world 70
comet Perhaps God will fix it up in the
resurrection body so that it viii not have to
go iimping through all eternity, but get the
liver thoroughly damaged and it viii stay
damaged Physicians call it cancer of thu
! liver, or hardening Of the liver, or cirrhosis
| of the liver, or Inflammation Of the liver, or
fatty degeneration of the liver, but Solomon
] puts all these pangs into one figure and says:
Still the dart strike through his liver"
Hesiod seemed to have some hint of this
when he represented Prometheus for his
crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle feed
| ing ON his liver, which was renewed again
each night, 50 that the devouring went on
until finally Hercules slew the eagle and res
cued Prometheus And dissipated early
life assures ferocity pecking away and
clawing away at the liver year in and year
out, and Death is the only Hercules who can